Flint police looking for two men in market before fatal shooting

A Flint police homicide investigator says the men in this store security camera video were the last customers in the Carpenter Supermarket on March 7 before store owner Wajdi Badr was shot during a robbery attempt. Police Sgt. Jeff Fray wants to interview the men, and asks that anyone who can identify them call police.

FLINT -- On the pictures from the store security camera, they're just two guys who've walked into a typical Flint store.

But a Flint police homicide investigator wants to interview these two men who were the last customers in the Carpenter Supermarket, 1720 E. Carpenter Road, before suspects entered the store, fought with owner Wajdi "J.J." Badr, and shot him on the night of March 7.

"The robbery-homicide occurred not too long after these two guys left the store," said Sgt. Jeff Fray of the Flint Police Department's homicide squad. "They could have additional information and it may be very important."

Two suspects, Markcus H. McGill and Jasmin C. Davison, both 22 and from Flint, have been charged with murder, armed robbery and weapons charges in the shooting of Badr, 41, in what Fray called a botched robbery attempt.

McGill, who was also wounded allegedly in the fighting with Badr, had just been released from prison a few weeks before. Both men face a preliminary examination on the charges in Flint District Court later this month.

Even so, Fray said it's still important that they identify the two men who were in the store before the suspects entered and tried to rob Badr.

"We definitely want to talk to them, they are certainly persons of interest," he said.